EU MINISTERS APPROVE NEW EU AUTO TYPE APPROVAL SYSTEM
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL THE COUNTDOWN is now on for European Union (EU) manufacturers of trucks, vans, buses, coaches, motor homes and trailers to ensure their models comply with revamped EU vehicle performance rules for automobile design. These so-called 'type approval' rules come into play when a manufacturer wants to get a vehicle model approved by a regulator for sale in a particular country. They then have to ask regulators to assess their designs to prove they fulfill certain technical specifications, such as crash protection, stability, emissions and noise. In ...
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